namesage's list "Top Contenders (Girl)" of 2 great name ideas: Calla - Marnie!

Top Contenders (Girl)

Calla is a botanical name that is much more distinctive than popular Lily or similar Callie. Rarely heard today, it did appear in the popularity lists in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
 
Ultimately from the Greek kallos meaning "beauty", Calla is the name of two separate but similar plants, notably the white calla lily. Given to 130 girls year, it is currently less popular than similar choices such as Kaia, Clara, Cali, Willa, and Calliope, but wouldn't seem out of place among them. 
 Calla is the eponymous heroine of the Rebecca Wells novel The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder, and there's an English rock band called Her Name is Calla.
 Actress Mare Winningham named her daughter Calla way back in 1987 while sound-alike Cala is an Arabic name meaning fortress.

Calla

A retro short form of Marina, dated to the era of the Hitchcock movie that made it famous, Marnie is beginning to feel fresh again — or rather, it is in the UK. Appearing in the Top 100 there in a recent year, parents may have been inspired by British singer Lily Allen, who gave it to her second daughter in 2013, or by the character in the hit TV show Girls.
 
Friendly and gentle with the the popular sounds of Annie, Marley, Maisie, and Marcy, Marnie manages to be sweet without feeling cutesy. With the added bonus of a sea-inspired meaning, Marnie is also seeing quiet shifts up the US stats, with 85 girls given the name in a recent year —the highest number of Marnies born in a single year since the late 1970s.